Garden Gram #20: A Small Vegetable Garden Plan, The Case for Nasturtiums, Seed Mania
Plus: Please buy yourself some tulips for Valentine's Day! ❤️
Hello! Welcome back to Garden Gram after a little winter hiatus. Since it’s time to start planning our gardens, I thought I’d jump in with a few suggestions this week.
👩🌾 A Small Vegetable Garden Plan 🥬
As the world gets stranger every day, it seems like it might be a good idea for us all to grow a little more of our own food, right?! If this is the year you want to build a small vegetable garden (or a medium-sized one), please head on over to a very comprehensive article I wrote for Martha’s Vineyard Magazine several years ago, Holy Homegrown.
In addition to information about where to site your garden, how to build it and plant it, and 10 favorite vegetables to grow, there are drawings of three different gardens – a very small one, a medium-ish one, and a medium-large one. The very small one (illustration below) happens to be modeled after my first garden on the Vineyard, and I assure you, you can grow A LOT of food in three 4’ x 4’ boxes.
If you’ve got your heart set on an aesthetically pleasing vegetable garden, please track down a copy of The Complete Kitchen Garden by
. You’ll find a variety of themed gardens and lovely illustrations, as well as valuable plant variety profiles. Ellen also has a lovely Substack newsletter, the Art of Growing Food, that you can subscribe to as well. And more books, like The New Heirloom Garden.Feel free to message me here on Substack with any vegetable growing questions you have. And, oops, I am realizing that while we are talking about garden planning, I should remind you that you can find all my advice about planning a cut flower garden in the article I wrote last year for Martha’s Vineyard Magazine, Growing a Bouquet. Now is the right time to be reading that.
